In Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, sexual assault survivors refuse silence
In this Mennonite #MeToo drama, the victims of male violence must choose between faith and their desire for justice.
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Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale is dismal, claustrophobic and sometimes cruel
Brendan Fraser’s performance as an obese shut-in could win him an Oscar, but this bleak, suffocating film is hard to…
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Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a major and personal work
The director’s 34th feature – and the first to turn the camera on himself – ranks as one of his…
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Why the father-daughter drama Aftersun deserves all the awards
This story of an 11-year-old (Frankie Corio) and her dad (Paul Mescal) is a moving, memorable and astonishingly accomplished debut.
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How Ireland’s violent history haunts The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated film is set during the bloody conflict of 1922, but it is not a neat metaphor for…
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Top Gun: Maverick and the politics of the action hero
In its Reaganite military pomp, Top Gun seemed to mark the end of an era – but a new sequel…
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Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin: a brilliantly nasty Irish fable
The director reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in a timeless film full of heartbreaking sunsets and superb knitwear.
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Why we need more female monsters like Lydia Tár
Cate Blanchett’s fierce composer is a proxy for all the rage I’m not allowed, as a middle-aged woman, to express.
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